February 2019

Newsletter

Hello and welcome to our second newsletter of 2019. We have been very busy improving and adding new features for you to try – carry on reading for more information.

As always, thank you for your continued comments and feedback. Remember, if you have a story you would like to share then let us know. It doesn’t matter if you are a professional or an amateur, or if you scan documents, film or photos; or where you are in the world – we love to hear from you and share with all our customers how you use VueScan.

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Thank you, Beverley.

VueScan Updates

Since the last newsletter, we’ve released VueScan 9.6.33, 9.6.32; 9.6.31; 9.6.30; 9.6.29; 9.6.28;

To read the release notes for all previous versions, go to: https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#changes

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Feature Update: Automatic media size detection and automatic cropping

We have added a new feature - Automatic Media Size Detection – which means that VueScan will now recognise the size of what you’re scanning. This works both on flatbed scanners and document feeders. To enable this, set ‘Input | Media size” to “Auto”.

How does this help you? It means that with a flatbed, you can put smaller things on the glass, and VueScan will scan this faster by stopping scanning when it detects it has scanned the whole image. With a document feeder, you can put any sized document or picture into the feeder, and it will detect the size automatically.

How is this implemented? VueScan tells the scanner to scan the maximum possible size of the flatbed or document feeder, and then stops the scan on the flatbed when it determines that there’s a high probability the whole document has been scanned. Since the scan speed isn’t affected by scanning at the maximum width, this saves a lot of time on flatbed scans of smaller documents, pictures or receipts.

We have also improved the accuracy of automatic cropping, allowing you to scan odd sized pieces of paper (e.g. receipts) on either a flatbed or a document feeder. To enable this, set ‘Crop | Auto crop’ to ‘Auto’. We’ve also made this work on flatbeds that have a black or white lid and on document feeders that have a black, gray or white background (i.e. the color of the rollers).

Frequently Asked Questions

Q) I have tried the trial version but can find no way of sizing the final scan other than by %. Can a specific mm measurement be set?

A) Use the "Output | Printed size" option to do this.

Q) Does VueScan do double sided scanning?

A) Yes, set "Input | Mode" to "Duplex Feeder".

Q) Will VueScan work on CentOS (Fedora, Red Hat) Linux?

A) Yes - it's worked on all versions of Linux for more than 10 years.

What film scanner should I purchase?

For anyone looking at purchasing a film scanner – read this article for ideas. In our opinion, if you can find a second-hand Nikon CoolScan then we still recommend them!

To access all previous newsletters: https://www.hamrick.com/newsletter.html

Customer Corner

It’s always good to learn who uses VueScan. We are delighted that world adventurer and conservationist Holly Budge has been using VueScan for scanning photos of elephants for the charity she founded.

Who is Holly Budge?

British adventurer, conservationist and motivational speaker, Holly Budge, was quite literally on top of the world when she summited Mount Everest in 2017. Her passion for adventure is evident with two world records under her belt so far, including being the first woman to skydive Everest and race semi-wild horses 1000 kms across Mongolia in just nine days. Holly is not limited to adventure, she is also an acclaimed artist and passionate conservationist. She is the founder of ‘How Many Elephants’, an award winning campaign raising awareness of the plight of elephants in Africa and funds for anti-poaching projects. To learn more about Holly visit: http://www.hollybudge.com/

Holly says “I use VueScan a lot to produce high quality scans with accurate colours. It is very easy to use and has many features making the possibilities of what is possible endless. When I tried it for scanning even old faded photos, it gave me a great result.”

Customer Comment

Thank you so much for your many emails – we always like to hear from our customers. Here are a few of them – unedited!

Love your product with my Nikon Coolscan 5000 scanner!! After Nikon stopped support for it I discovered you guys! Works better than Nikon software ever did. I have now scanned about 20,00 negatives and slides of Rock’n Roll and Indy Cars from 1971 on. Still scanning and thank you so much! Without you folks and VueScan my website www.richzimmermann.com would not have so many images on it!!

Rich Zimmermann, Brookfield, WI USA

www.richzimmermann.com.

Just want to explain that I have been using Hamrick scanning software for many years and find it to be one of the finest software products ever developed and maintained. Thank you very much for your products.

Robert O’BRIEN, P.E.

Bellevue, WA

This was the best software investment I have ever made.

I purchased my copy back with my email was gregXX@XXX.com. which was looong ago. This was in July 2002.

VueScan has outlasted several scanning devices and when my Fujitsu showed it was not going to work on future versions of my Mac OS, I updated to the latest version and I am up and running

Thanks to all who have helped me survive the updates what leave old hardware behind.